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_Hecuba_; _Amphytruo_; _Medea_. These fall between 1546 and 1560. The
date and place of the production of William Goldingham of Trinity
Hall's _Herodes_, some time after 1567, are unknown.

[161] The date and place of performance of the Latin _Fatum
Vortigerni_ are unknown; but it was not improbably produced at a
later time than Shakespeare's _Richard II._, which it seems in
certain points to resemble.

[162] Latin "academical" plays directly imitated from Seneca, but of
unknown date, are _Solymannidae_ (or the story of Solyman II. and his
son Mustapha), and _Tomumbeius_ (Tuman Bey, sultan of Egypt, 1516);
yet others exhibit his influence.

[163] _"Supposes" and "Jocasta,"_ ed. J. W. Cunliffe.

[164] His _Palamon and Arcyte_ (produced in Christ Church hall,
Oxford, in 1566) is not preserved; or we should be able to compare
with _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ this early dramatic treatment of a
singularly fine theme.

[165] _The History of the Collier._

[166] _A Historie of Error_ (1577), one of the many imitations of the
_Menaechmi_, may have been the foundation of the _Comedy of Errors_.
In the previous year was printed the old _Taming of a Shrew_, founded
on a novel of G. F. Straparola. Part of the plot of Shakespeare's
_Taming of the Shrew_ may have been suggested by _The Supposes_.

[167] _Treatise wherein Dicing, Dauncing, Vaine Playes or Enterluds
... are reproved_, &c. (1577).

[168] _The School of Abuse._

[169] _The Anatomy of Abuses._

[170] H. Denham, G. Whetstone (the author of _Promos and Cassandra_),
W. Rankine.

[171] It may be mentioned that the practice of companies of players,
of one kind or another, being taken into the service of members of
the royal family, or of great nobles, dates from much earlier times
than the reign of Elizabeth. So far back as 1400/1 the corporation of
Shrewsbury paid rewards to the _histriones_ of Prince Henry and of
the earl of Stafford, and in 1408/9 reference is made to the players
of the earl and countess of Arundel, of Lord Powys, of Lord Talbot
and of Lord Furnival.

[172] _The Woman in the Moone_; _Sapho and Phao_.

[173] _Alexander and Campaspe._

[174] _Endimion_; _Mydas_.

[175] _Gallathea._

[176] _Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay._

[177] _The Wounds of Civil War._ With Greene he wrote _A
Looking-Glass for London_